FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — Almost 10 years ago, there was a funeral for Vietnam War veteran 69-year-old William Steve Glatfelter.
“It was really wonderful. They had the guns out, and when they brought his ashes out, they shot the guns and did the flags, and it was under a white building, and it was really pretty.” His granddaughter, Sienna Langley, was only 8 years old when he died. She called him “Paw-Paw.”
“He had a camper in our backyard. He lived with me, my Mom and my Dad and my grandmother,” she remembered. “I used to go back there and watch movies. He taught me how to shoot a gun; we did everything. He was a big part of my life.”
About a week after the Army veteran passed away, services were held at the State Veterans Cemetery in Spanish Fort, with full military honors.
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Part of his ashes were interred at the cemetery, and the rest were given to the family, but somehow got lost along the way.
“I didn’t even know he was lost. I thought my Mom had him or my uncle had him,” said Langley.
So imagine the surprise when she got a message from total strangers, the Moffat family. They had found Glatfelter’s ashes while unpacking the contents from a storage unit they had recently won at auction…